Define the spotlight effect and provide an example of how it works

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The tendency for people to think that others are paying much closer attention to them than they really are.

Psychology

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With regard to defense mechanisms, which of the following is an example of undoing?

a) a co-worker insulting your work and then excessively praising you at a meeting the next day b) a child starting a temper tantrum in a toy store because she was told she could not have a doll c) an abused teenager pretending the abuse never happened d) a man rejecting the death of his son

Psychology

Your ability to view and interpret an ambiguous figure in two different ways is a result of

a. visual problems. b. alternating between the occipital and parietal lobes. c. mental fatigue and exhaustion. d. alternating perceptual control between the left and right hemispheres. e. perceptual sets.

Psychology